BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation training after sports injury is of so great importance in the remaining and relieving of exercise ability that the researches in thisfield need to develop.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of isokinetic training on the functional recovery of knee flexors and extensors and the muscle force around the joint after knee meniscus injuries receiving arthroscopy.DESIGN: Case-control observation SETTING: Department of Police Training, Liaoning Advanced Police Officer School PARTICIPANTS: A total of 20 patients with acute meniscus injury of lateral knee joint were selected from the Department of Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University between September 2004 and January 2005. They were randomly divided into experimental group and control group,including 11 cases respectively. METHODS: All the patients were treated with arthroscope operation, additionally the control patients received routine blocking, physiotherapy and massage, etc. To recover the function. From the 2nd to 4th days postoperative, the patients of experimental group began to carry out the functional rehabilitation, and received isokinetic exercise in both knees flexors and extensors with the Cybex-6000 isokinetic dynamometer 3 weeks later.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Peak torque values, total work, torque accelerating energy and average power in both knee flexors and extensors at different angular velocities [60, 120 and 180(°)/s].RESULTS: A total of 22 patients were involved in the result analysis.①After arthroscope operation and isokinetic training, the range of joint movement were extended, and the maximum flexion angle changed from (132±25)° to (158±21)°. There were significant differences before and after training by t test (P ＜ 0.01).②The experimental group had statistical significance compare with control group in the test index at 60, 120 and 180(°)/s(P ＜ 0.05).CONCLUSION: The arthroscope combining with isokinetic training can speed up the rehabilitation after knee meniscus injury, enhance the muscle force around knee joint and maintain the stability of knee joint and motor ability.

[Objective]To evaluate the effect of treatment of unstable intertrochanteric fracture with dynamic condylar screw.[Method]Fifty-six cases of unstable intertrochanteric fractures were treated with typical ORIF (open reduction and internal fixation) with dynamic condylar screw from 2000 to 2004. According to the Evan's classification systems, there were 19 cases of Evan's Ⅲ fracture, 27 cases of Evan's Ⅳ fracture and 10 cases oblique reverse Evan'sⅤ fracture. The average period of follow-up was 10 months (8～15 months).[Result]All cases had union with average union time of 4 months, no coxae inversion, fixation failure and fracture nonunion. The satisfactory rate of function was 89%. [Conclusion]For unstable intertrochanteric fracture,including Evan's Ⅲ, Evan's Ⅳ and oblique reverse Evan'sⅤ fracture, using DCS is a good method to improve the clinical results.

Cardio-protective action of synthetic peptide 6A, fibrinogen degradation segment, was observed on the myocardial injury model produced by subcutaneous injection of iso-proterenol (30 mg?kg-1-d-1) into rat. Treatment with peptide 6A (50 ?mol?kg-1? d-1,iv) significantly ameliorated isoproterenol-induced myocardial lesion, inhibited release of myocardial creatine phosphokinase, ?-hydroxybutyratedehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase and gluta-mate-oxaloacetate transaminase, lowered plasma fibrinogen content,and markedly prevented myocardial calcium accumulation. The results suggest that peptide 6A could have potential significance for clinical therapy of ischemia heart diseases.

Objective To analyze the clinical features,and prognosis of the interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM) by chest X-ray,chest high-resolution CT scan (HRCT) and pulmonary lung function.Methods Thirty-three patients hospitalized with DM/PM associated ILD were retrospectively analyzed.Results Thirty-three patients with ILD were confirmed by HRCT.Abnormal pulmonary function tests were available in 82% of patients.Clinical-imaging analysis revealed that the pathological features of ILD were non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP,57%) and unusual interstitial pneumonia (UIP,25%).UIP types showed a poor prognosis and high mortality (70%).Conclusion This study shows that HRCT is more sensitive for the diagnosis of ILD than lung function tests and chest X-ray.Combined HRCT and chest X-ray with lung function tests and blood gas analysis have shown that the major pathological types of ILD are NSIP and UIP,in which UIP are associated with high mortality and poor prognosis.

Xuezhikang capsule (ethanol extract of red yeast rice) which produced by Beijing WBL Peking University Biotech Co., Ltd., is a traditional Chinese medication with 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibiting activity. Clinical trials indicated that Xuezhikang with lipid-lowering action could reduce the risk of cardiac events and total mortality of Chinese coronary heart disease patients. To exactly explain the clinical features of Xuezhikang, we undertook a complete study of the chemical constituents of Xuezhikang. This study resulted in the isolation of a new monacolin analogue, named alpha, beta-dehydromonacolin L (1), along with two known compounds: monacolin L (2) and 3-(2, 6-dimethyl-1, 2, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8a-octahydronaphthalen-1-yl)propanoic acid (3). The chemical structures were determined by extensive 1D and 2D NMR and MS spectroscopic analysis.

BACKGROUND:Aconitum carmichaeli Debx (ACD) is the tuberous root of Aconium carmicgaekum, used as cardiotonic to restore yang for the treatment of colapse and shock, to warm the kidney and reinforceyang, and to expel cold and promote the flow ofyang-qi. Studies have found that ACD has obviously cardiotonic, antihypertensive, vasodilatory, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and toxic effects. OBJESTIVE: To observe the vasodilatory effects of a water decoction of ACD on rabbit’s aorta rings and its mechanism. METHODS:Rabbits aorta arteries were isolated, pre-contracted with noradrenaline (10-6 mol/L) and their responses to different concentrations of ACD (0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0 g/L) were investigated. The effects of removal of vascular endothelium and different signaling pathway inhibitors (Nω-nitro-L-arginine: 1×10-4 mol/L, methylene blue: 1×10-5 mol/L, indomethacin: 1×10-5 mol/L, propranolol: 1×10-5 mol/L) on ACD-induced vasodilation were also assessed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:ACD could not change the resting tension of rabbit aortic rings, but ACD treatment resulted in an obvious relaxation in narodrenaline-precontracted aortic rings and the relaxant effect was dose-dependent. The vasodilatory effect of ACD was significantly reduced by removal of endothelium, 1×10-4 mol/L Nω-nitro-L-arginine and 1×10-5 mol/L methylene blue but not reduced by indomethacin and propranolol. In addition, 4 g/L water decoction of ACD did not decrease the dose-response curves of artery rings to narodrenaline or KCl in the absence of endothelial cels. ACD can relax isolated rabbit’s aorta, which may be related to endothelium-released nitric oxide, but has no significant relevance with receptor-operated and voltage-dependent calcium channels.

BACKGROUND: Micro-arc oxidation, also be known as micro-plasma oxidation or anodic spark deposition, is a new technology that can in situ grow ceramic coating directly on the surface of non-ferrous metals. And the ceramic coating has such characteristics as high corrosion resistance, good wear resistance, etc. It is advantageous to the osseointegration between implant and bone that the ceramic coating is able to produce porous, rough oxide film on the surface layer of the implant, which improves the biological reaction of the bone interface so as to affect the number of bone-forming cells, ype, products of cell, and the expression of the product.OBJECTIVE: To observe the osseointegration between bone and implant, and to analyze induced action of metal trace elements to bone-formation's marker (ALP). METHODS: A computer-based online search was conducted in PUMMED and Chinese Journal Full-text Database with the key words of "micro-arc oxidation, synosteosis, titanium, magnesium" in both English and Chinese between 1995 and 2009. Additionally, hand-made retrieval was performed for articles about micro-arc oxidation and microelement. Among 96 articles, 34 references were excluded due to unrelated and duplicated articles, and 28 ones were excluded due to long-term publication, 34 ones were included in the final analysis.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: It is believed that the surface modification methods on microelement and micro-arc oxidation ceramic coating on Ti-based implant will become the mainstream process to improve the rate of implant-bone integration.However, the clinical application still needs to be further studied.

Objective To analysis of risk factors for left atrial thrombosis in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis.Methods From January 2001 to December 2008, 2277 patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis underwent operations in our hospital. There were 737 males and 1540 female, the age ranged from 19 to 84 years [average (50.9 ±10.2) years]. Left atrial thrombosis group (554 cases) and no thrombosis group (1723 cases) were divided, retrospectively collected data were analyzed with univariate and multivariate Logistic regression. Results 12 bvariables, including age, mitral valve orifice area, left atrial diameter, left ventricular diastole diameter, CRP, gender , degree of mitral stenosis, or regurgitation, degree of bicuspid regurgitation, degree of pulmonary hypertension, atrial fibrillation and heart function had statistic difference between two groups. With multivariate Logistic regression for these 12 factors, age, mitral valve orifice area, left atrial diameter, degree of mitral regurgitation and atrial fibrillation were found to be the affecting factors for left atrial thrombosis in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis. Conclusion For patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis, age, mitral valve orifice area, left atrial diameter and atrial fibrillation are the risk factors for left atrial thrombosis. Mitral regurgitation is a protective factor for left atrial thrombosis.

Objective To evaluate the expression of bcl-2, p53, Ki-67 in malignant lymphoma (ML)and the relationship between the expression of bcl-2, Ki-67, p53 and prognosis for the patients who were given autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT). Methods The expression of bcl-2,Ki-67, p53 were measured by immunohistochemistry (IHC) on paraffin-embedded slices in 33 cases of ML who received AHSCT. Survival analysis was done by the Kaplan-Meier method and Log-Rank test.Multivariate analysis was carried out using COX proportional hazard model. Results For patients with ML who received AHSCT, the 3-year disease free survival (DFS) of bcl-2(+) group was 35.71%, while that bcl-2(-) group was 88.89 %. There was significant difference of DFS between the two groups. Meanwhile, for these patients, the 3-year DFS of Ki-67(+) and Ki-67(-) were 43.75 % and 85.71%, respectively (P ＜0.05).Multivariate analysis showed that the expression of bcl-2 and Ki-67 were the independent prognostic factors.Conclusion The expression of bcl-2 and Ki-67 were closely related with relapse after AHSCT in patients with ML. They were useful molecular makers for predicting the prognosis of patients with ML after AHSCT.

The effects of intramuscular or intracerebroventricular injection of penta-gastrin(PG) on the action potential amplitude (APA) of the myocardial cells and the heart rate(HR) were studied. The results were as follows:1 ) Injection of 10?g/10?l of PG into one of the lateral ventricles of the ratfailed to produce any effect on APA or HR. When the dosage of PG was doubled(20?g/10?l), then HR could be slowed down significantly (P